YUBA COUNTY
Biographies
Individual Record (submitted by John C. Hall)
Name: John Hayden McCreary
Given Name: John Hayden
Surname: McCreary
Sex: Male
Birth: 3 Aug 1841 in Chesterville, Chester Township, Morrow County, Ohio
Death: 24 September 1889 in Marysville, Yuba County, California
Burial: Unknown Cemetery, Marysville, Yuba County, California
Obituary: Yes (1)
Military: Grand Army of the Republic Co. H, 3rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Father: George Washington McCreary
Mother: Mary Hayden
Marriage: 20 June 1872
License: Yuba County Record ID No. 246328, Volume 2, Page 374 (1)
Married: Aphline Kirkpatrick in Marysville, California
Children:
1 Unknown McCreary
2 Unknown McCreary
(1) References: Yuba County Library, California Room, Heather Moldenhauer
A brief Biography
Of
John Hayden McCreary
John Hayden McCreary was born 3 August 1841, the son of George Washington and Mary (Hayden) McCreary. He was born in Chesterville, Chester Township, Morrow County, Ohio. In 1849 George went to California, leaving his family behind, to join the goldrush. He returned to Ohio in 1852, then returned to California in 1853. He returned to Ohio in 1859, and shortly after moved his family to Freedom Township, Wood County, Ohio. The 1860 census of Wood County shows John McCreary, 18 living in the household of George McCreary, along with his siblings.
John Hayden McCreary enlisted as a Private in Company H, 3rd Regiment, Ohio Voluntary Infantry. The dates of his service are not known at this time. There is no further information about him until a 1901 McCreary reunion speech in Bradner, Ohio, which stated “Hayden married at Marysville, California but had no record of him.”
On 20 June 1872 John married Aphline Kirkpatrick in Marysville, and had two children.
His occupation was a well driller and house mover, until shortly before his death. He apparently was a very sick man in the last few years of his life, and took to drinking. Consequently his wife, Aphline, took the children and left him in about 1887 or 1888.
John Hayden McCreary died 24 September 1889 in the hospital in Marysville.
It is my ambition to locate his grave so that appropriate action can be taken to have a veteran’s gravestone installed so that proper recognition for his service can be given.
Every one of John’s brothers also served in the Union Army, Alfred Biddleton McCreary (My great grandfather), Vinal Elmore McCreary and George Lodemas McCreary (Our drummer boy, buried in the California Veterans Home Cemetery in Yountville).
John C. Hall - 22 October 2003
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